RE: Pic Of The Week: Audi R18
Discussion
wildman0609 said:
Pixel Pusher said:
Chris71 said:
B10 said:
Where is this car actually made and designed? Is it a UK made car from someone like Lola wearing a badge of convenience or is it designed and maunfactured by Audi in Germany. A quick google reveals little.
Nope, it is actually made by Audi Sport. Audi, Peuegot/Citroen and Porsche are the only companies I can think of off the top of my head with a genuine in-house motorsport division still.bmw have an in house motorsport division for touring cars and sports cars.
aston and prodrive and now the same so it could be argued that aston have in house race team.
BSC said:
Chris71 said:
Nope, it is actually made by Audi Sport. Audi, Peuegot/Citroen and Porsche are the only companies I can think of off the top of my head with a genuine in-house motorsport division still.
Volkswagen Motorsport?Lotus produces its own GT racers too.
Does Spyker count?
nickythesaint said:
They are amazing to watch at Le Mans, they don't realy sound diesel like, they have this wonderful low down turbine sound, doesn't sound like it runs on anything like deisel, sounds more like it runs on photons or something.
And they go like sting, as someone else mentioned, they really fly out of corners due to all the torque.
And in the early hours of the morning after drinking your own body weight in booze several times over sitting in the dark and the cold, its often a welcome restbite from your ear drums after the onslaught of V8's popping and growling past.
Sorry but Le Mans for me is hearing '007' approaching in 2009 and flying past at the Porsche curves with a V12 making a staggering noise. Followed a few minutes later by a Corvette that sounded like Kiera Knightley blowing her bean 100 times over....oh and then an Audi/Peugeot gliding past like a taxi on Broad Street.And they go like sting, as someone else mentioned, they really fly out of corners due to all the torque.
And in the early hours of the morning after drinking your own body weight in booze several times over sitting in the dark and the cold, its often a welcome restbite from your ear drums after the onslaught of V8's popping and growling past.
B10 said:
Audi Sport that run this car are based in the UK. Since the UK is probably the top location for world motor sport manufacture, it would not surprise me if the car, minus engine, is made and engineered in the UK. Can anyone shed some light?
Audi Sport UK are based in the UK. I believe, as had already been said, that the factory Audi team is designed, built and then run from Germany. RTN (I think) built and ran the R8C back in 1999 and had much to do with the Bentley a few years later (again, I might be wrong).
Racefan_uk said:
Audi Sport UK are based in the UK. I believe, as had already been said, that the factory Audi team is designed, built and then run from Germany.
RTN (I think) built and ran the R8C back in 1999 and had much to do with the Bentley a few years later (again, I might be wrong).
RTN (I think) built and ran the R8C back in 1999 and had much to do with the Bentley a few years later (again, I might be wrong).
Audi Sport is based in Germany.
There's a UK division that has run cars at Le Mans in the past, including the coupe they did a few years back.
R11ysf said:
Is this really a diesel???
Any reason why, is it something to do with the regulations or is it an engineering exercise??
The 24H's organising body (the ACO) have been trying to position it as a leading example of 'environmentally responsible' motorsport for some years. The shift to diesels came when it introduced rules which favoured diesel engined cars enough to persuade its major competitors to develop purpose built racing engines (which is big money at the best of times). So, for the past 5 years it's been won by cars developed to the most favourable rules by the teams with the largest budgets but hey, that's racing and all credit to Audi and Peugeot for making seriously capable racers. The things are wickedly rapid and have got slightly noisier over the last few years (2010's Pugs had a serious growl, until they all blew up), but I'm not too enthused by the smaller engine regs this year.Any reason why, is it something to do with the regulations or is it an engineering exercise??
I always thought that Audis' monocoques were built by Dallara. I'm pretty sure they've done most people's sportscar monocoques over the years, including the best Ferrari ever made - the delectable and sonorous 333SP, which was powered by Michelotto and disowned by that berk diMontizemelo. But that's neither fact nor on topic.
mcdjl said:
I vaguely remember hearing that they were doing some testing in Norfolk a few years back as they were based that way but could be wrong.
The original fixed head Audi Coupe which ran alongside the official factory open top cars in 1999 was built in the Racing Technologies Norfolk factory later the Bentley LM coupes were built there and currently the Fernandez version of Team Lotus F1 is built there.
Edited by RTH on Friday 4th February 20:54
Chris71 said:
Racefan_uk said:
Audi Sport UK are based in the UK. I believe, as had already been said, that the factory Audi team is designed, built and then run from Germany.
RTN (I think) built and ran the R8C back in 1999 and had much to do with the Bentley a few years later (again, I might be wrong).
RTN (I think) built and ran the R8C back in 1999 and had much to do with the Bentley a few years later (again, I might be wrong).
Audi Sport is based in Germany.
There's a UK division that has run cars at Le Mans in the past, including the coupe they did a few years back.
As I said, the factory outfit is run fully from Germany.Moley RUFC said:
Sorry but Le Mans for me is hearing '007' approaching in 2009 and flying past at the Porsche curves with a V12 making a staggering noise. Followed a few minutes later by a Corvette that sounded like Kiera Knightley blowing her bean 100 times over....oh and then an Audi/Peugeot gliding past like a taxi on Broad Street.
Quote of the day mate. What a picture that paints!! Pixel Pusher said:
Moley RUFC said:
Sorry but Le Mans for me is hearing '007' approaching in 2009 and flying past at the Porsche curves with a V12 making a staggering noise. Followed a few minutes later by a Corvette that sounded like Kiera Knightley blowing her bean 100 times over....oh and then an Audi/Peugeot gliding past like a taxi on Broad Street.
Quote of the day mate. What a picture that paints!! And don't forget, the one in your mirrors won't look like the photo. It will have paint and stuff....
drewbagz said:
I wonder what you would have to do to make one of these road legal. Other than rob all a countries gold reserve (not Britain's obviously because Brown sold it all in the recession silly t
t!)
Well in the UK it would have to pass IVA where the race car will fall down:t!)Noise
Headlights
Reversing Lights
Indicators
Windscreen washer
Immobiliser
Amazingly enough if you fitted those there are no requirements to get over a speed bump or to "not look like a racing car".
The only issue I could see is it might not be acceptable from a forward vision point of view. To pass the test the driver must have an unobstructed field of view over a 90 degree sector from straight ahead.
RTN doesn't exist any more it packed up a long time ago. since then toyota have used there facility and now team lotus are based there.
audi sport uk was a uk based team but they no longer exist either.
now audi sport team joest run the and build the cars, and have been for some time. see here http://www.joest-racing.de/web/start/index.php
the cars are designed and built in germany in a partnership between audi sport and joest.
audi sport uk was a uk based team but they no longer exist either.
now audi sport team joest run the and build the cars, and have been for some time. see here http://www.joest-racing.de/web/start/index.php
the cars are designed and built in germany in a partnership between audi sport and joest.
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